Photograph
number: Schools 1
Circa late
1920s / early 1930s
St Paul’s C
of E School Class Photograph
David
Atchison from Grimethorpe provided this photographs with the following
note: The note was dated January 2003.
"Thomas
Kaye is on the extreme left in the middle row. He will be 80 in July 2003
and for the last 50 years has lived in the Far East and now New Zealand.
This photograph would have been taken in the late 1920s early 30s. Thomas
was the youngest son of Tommy and Alice Kaye who lived for many years at
12 Park Road Brierley".
Further
information from Gary: The school records show that Thomas Kaye was
born on the 7th July 1923 and was admitted to the school on 8th April
1929. I am not sure of any names of other pupils on the photograph but the
school records show that the following pupils were admitted on the same
day as Thomas: Olive Painter, Ernest Fenn, Geoffrey Massey, Kenneth
Jackson, Grace Norburn, Adeline Cunthorne, Gerald Dyson, Eunice Allen.
Other pupils admitted up to June the same year and were born either in
1923 or 24 are, Mary Pickard, Edith Parkinson, Ralph Thorpe, Sylvia
Parkinson, Charles W Garner, Christine Swale, Frank Jenkins, Sylvia Wilce
and Phyllis Drinkwater.It is possible that these pupils are also on the
photograph. Can you put any of the names to the faces?
The
school records also show that Thomas Kaye left the district on 9th
September 1932.This is confusing because David note states that his
parents lived at 12 Park Road for many years and Thomas would not have
been old enough to have left the district on his own.
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Photograph
No: Schools 2
Circa 1960?
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Thorpe’s class
Known faces are:
Top row left to right: ? Parkinson, ?
, Rita Holden, Lynn Jackson and Mrs Thorpe. Middle row l to r: ? , ? ,
Christine King, ? Mary and Alan Thorpe. Bottom row l to r: ? , Pat
Hardwick, ? Burdett, Carol Woodward, Margaret Cross, ? and Keith Sheridan
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Photograph
No: Schools 3
Circa 1937
St Paul’s C
of E School
Known faces are: Top row left to right: Joe
Brazier, F Jenkins, R Thorpe, Sid Hardwick and Maurice Thorpe. Second row
l to r: J Armitage, D Austin, K Jackson, R Jowett, E Perkins and S
Parkinson. . Third row l to r: Derek Grimes, Sylvia Wilce, J Wroe, Mr A
Foster (Headmaster), R Makins, Olive Painter and S Walker. Bottom row l to
r: M Riley, Enid Parkinson and ?.
Photograph
and information supplied by the late Mrs Sylvia Hawkins (nee Wilce).
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Photograph
No: Schools 4
1968
Milefield
Middle School
These pupils
were amongst the first pupils to attend Milefield on its opening in 1968.
The pupils in this photograph went straight into the fourth year where
they stayed for two years until 1970. The Headmaster at the time was Tom
Gannon. The school took pupils from the age of 9 to 13 from Brierley,
Grimethorpe and Shafton. They then went onto Willowgarth High school for a
further two years before leaving school at 15 in 1972. The year after the
school leaving age went up to 16.
Back row left to
right: Steven Leyland, Ian Dennison, Alan Mitchell, Alex Harvey, David
Wilson, Clifford Lomas, Tony Caldwell? , John Bardsley, Pete Royston,
Arthur Bennet and Miss Jenny Smith the teacher who I am told went on to
become Mrs Weldon. Middle row l to r: Mick Marshall, David Steele, Glynn
Skelton, Steven Wilkinson, Lynn Wooldridge, Wendy Firth, Diane Holt,
Sharon Wilby, Elizabeth Wardle, Gary Hotchins and Tony Bennet. Bottom row
l to r: Tina Morgan, Cindy Bates, Patricia Hughes, Sue Wright, Linda
Smith, Sharon Cross, Sandra Mathers, Karen Harris and Linda Chamberlain.
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Photograph
No: Schools 5
Circa 1963
St Paul’s C
of E School Nativity play
This photograph
was taken where the bar is now in the Village club.
Left to right
standing: Gary Wilson, Ralph Bown, Karen Elvidge, ? , Alan Burdett, Pearl
Jones, Julie Pickering, Jill Stringer, ? , Cindy Bates, Christine
Sheridan, Christine Lomas, Peter Oates, Neil Fenton and Graham Scholey.
Sitting l to r: Paul Brown, Terence Guy, Christopher Foster, Barry Wilmot,
? , Sharon Cross, Stephen Wilkinson, Christopher Hanson, June Mann, Gary
Hotchins and David Reece.
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Photograph
No: Schools 6
Circa 1963
St Paul’s C
of E School May Queen
Left to right
standing: Yana Tibble? Pauline Kelly, Barbara Nixon, John Webb, Catherine
Pritchard, Joyce Watson and John Burton. Sitting l to r: Leslie Atkinson?.
Sandra Wenham (May Queen), Julie Armitage and Gena Tibble. Sitting on the
floor is Paul Brown.
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Photograph
No: Schools 7
Circa 1963
St Paul’s C
of E School May Day celebration
This photograph
was taken looking down towards the left hand side of the stage in the
Village club.
Left to right
boys: ? , ? , David Greenwell, ? , Stephen Foster, Stephen Mangham, ?
Tibble, Christopher Hanson, ? Graham Marsh,,? , Gary Wilson, Clifford
Lomas, David or Kevin Elvidge and David (Crock) Higgs. Known girls are
Marilyn Brown, Diane Woodward, Susan White, Kathleen Keele, Diane
Cartwright, Cindy Bates and I think the tall girl at the back is Pauline
Kelly.
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Photograph
No: Schools 8
Circa 1963
St Paul’s C
of E School May Day celebration dancing round the Maypole
This photograph
was taken looking down towards the stage in what is now the Village club.
The only know
faces are Graham Marsh who is the lad with the glasses on and Susan
Snowden who is the girl with the dark top on in the centre of the maypole.
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Photograph No:
Schools 9
1937 (June 1st)
St Paul’s C
of E School Class of 1937
Back row left to right: Peter Watmough, Joe
Hardwick, ? , Freda Phillips, Joan Steele, Lillian Vamplew, ? , Doris
Makings, Gerald Goodhall, ? , Jim Bond and Peter Fry. Middle row l to r:
?, Muriel Earl, Ellen Sherwood, Doreen Davies, Josephine Buck, ? , Marie
Hawley, Violet Needham, Doreen Painter, Marie Crawford, Iris Kraft, Doreen
Dixon, David Thorpe and Jeffrey Rogers (missing from photograph). Sitting
l to r: Mark Scholey, ? , Hubert Dyson, ? , ? , Harry Jenkins, Leslie
Wilkinson, ? , George Wilkinson, Arthur Vamplew and Granville Hodgson.
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Photograph No: Schools
10
1968
St Paul’s C
of E School Mr Balmforth’s retirement.
Presenting a
cheque for £40 to the retiring head is Gary Wilson from the Park estate.
Other pupils are back row left to right: John Burton, ? ,
and next to Gary
Wilson is Pearl Jones. Front row l to r: Phillip Leadbeater, Carol
Chamberlain, ? Brownsword, ?
, Karen Elvidge and ? .
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Photograph
No: Schools 11
Circa 1964
St Paul’s C
of E School May Queen
Mr and Mrs
Balmforth (Headmaster) crown the May Queen, but who is she? Bottom left is
Ann Stirland with Christine Lomas next to her. Do you know the names of
the other two girls?
Mr Balmforth
retired at Easter 1968 and a former pupil and Brierley resident Edwin
Hambleton took his place as Head of the school. Edwin himself has now
retired and lives in South Hiendley. (March 2005)
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Photograph
No: Schools12
1926
St Paul’s C
of E School class of 1926
The young girl
with the long hair second row from the top on the left is Winifred Walker
now Mrs Goulding from Grange Road (March 2005). Other known faces are: G
Dewhurst, R Gladwin, A Watson, B Sharpe, H Wilkinson, Joyce Crossland, S
Crossland, W Wilkinson, A Little, J Steele, V Kerr, Norah Turner, R
Vamplew, H Mathers, R Anderson, Tommy Wroe (I think third row down on the
right), D Wroe, V Rowley, F Dewhurst and R Wroe. Flo Mathers is the girl
third row from the top and fourth from the right.
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Photograph No:
Schools 13
Circa 1950?
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Fox class
Back row left to
right: Mr Balmforth (Headmaster), Peter Kerly, Gordon Bates, Terry Loring,
? ,? ,? ,? ,? ,? , John Grimes, Tommy Bell, Victor Hartley and Mrs Fox
(teacher class 4). Middle row l to r: Alan Ward, Raymond Steele, ? , Rosie
Conroy (nee Pickering), ? , Hilary Howton, Shirley Jackson, Anne Wilkes,
John Cooper and Nelson Steele. Bottom row l to r: Lorna White, Susan
Painter, Roseanne ? , ? , Josie Taylor (nee Snowden), Joyce Hawley,
Margaret Grimes, June Newton and ? . Sitting down are ? , ? Wood, ?
and Mick Dye.
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Photograph
No: Schools 14
Circa 1963
St Paul’s C
of E School May Queen
Back row left to
right: Nigel Owen, Dean Taylor, Graham Scholey, Neil Fenton, Christopher
Hanson, Alan Burdett, Alan Hardwick, Christopher Foster, John Burton and
Ralph Bown. Middle row l to r: Davis Reece, Gary Hotchins, Stephen
Wilkinson, Julie Pickering, Pearl Jones, Peter Oates, Helen James, Jill
Stringer, Sandra Wenham, ? , Barry Wilmott and John Makinson. Bottom row l
to r: Stephen Kerly, Julie
Armitage, Sharon Cross, Christine Sheridan, Karen Elvidge, Christine
Lomas, ? and June Mann. Sitting down l to r: Terence Guy, Paul Brown,
Yvonne Tibble, Joyce Watson and Geraldine Higgs?
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Photograph
No: Schools 15
Circa 1957
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Thorpe’s class
Back row left to
right; Mrs Thorpe (teacher still living in Brierley) ? , ? Cooke, Pat
Wright, Craig Blackshaw, Peter Wooldridge, ?, Alex Finlay, Andrew
Ansell, Tony Horsefall (Brierley), David Baxendale, Ronnie Wheater.
Middle row left
to right; Alan Smith, Barbara Thorpe, Sylvia Berry, John Lomas, ? ,
Glenys Hardwick (Now Hardman, Brierley), Denise Williams (Now Sault,
Brierley), John Draper, Pat Dye, Mick Vodden, Dennis Oliver and
Roger Steele.
Bottom row left
to right; Marjorie Parry, Susan Sheridan (Brierley), Ann Mathers, ?
Lawton, Norman Cummings, Trev Berry, Pat Hardwick, Pam Turner, Geraldine
Scott, ? Lawton and Ann Harding
Thanks to John
Draper, Barbara Thorpe and Peter Woolridge for providing
the names.
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Photograph No: Schools
16
Circa 1928
St Paul’s C
of E School
Back row left to
right: Vernon Rowley, Raymond Anderson, Edgar Wroe, Leslie Steele, Bernard
Crossland (anyone who worked at Grimethorpe colliery may remember Bernard
as the chap that worked on the drilling machine with a hook for his hand),
Albert Hancock, Walter Wilkinson, Vincent Hartley, Tommy Wroe and Walter
Burton. 2nd row down l to r: Cyril Little, Jessie Schofield,
Joyce Pearson, May Lycett, M Watson, Ethel Lycett, ? Turner, Betsy
Hinchcliffe and ?. 3rd row down l to r: Joyce Osmond, Florence
Mathers, Gladys Bowden, Annie Ward, Mary Exley, Florence Pickering, ?
Hunt, Emma Dinsdale and Ruby White. Bottom row l to r: Chick Wilson, ?
Snowden, Tommy Winter, ?, Jack Pickering, Billy Wilkinson, Frank Arnold,
Joe Vamplew and Harry Wroe.
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Photograph No: Schools
17
1963
St Paul’s C
of E School May Day
This photograph
would have been taken in what is now the Brierley Social club (March
2005). Girls left to right: Geraldine Higgs, Jill Stringer, Sharon Cross,
Wendy Elvidge, Christine Lomas, Pearl Jones, Shirley Kelly and Christine
Sheridan (May Queen). Boys l to r: Alan Hardwick, Christopher Foster,
Barry Wilmott, Ralph Bown, Alan Burdett, Christopher Hanson, Neil Fenton
and Peter Oates.
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Photograph
No: Schools 18
Circa 1930
St Paul’s C
of E School
The headmaster
at this time would have been Mr William Sharp (Headmaster from 1903 –
1931). Dennis Turner now living in Scawsby, Doncaster (2000) provided this
photograph and surnames. Dennis can be seen bottom row fourth left with
Harry Ward at the end of the row on the right. Looking at the photograph
Charlie Pickering is to the right of Dennis. Although Dennis provided the
surnames, Christian names were only initialled. However, I have searched
the school records and hopefully I have put the correct Christian names to
the initials. Can you put faces to names?
Other names.
Eveline Dyson;
Nellie Vamplew; Harold Booker; Robert Buck; James Schofield; Betty
Deighton; Sidney Buck; George Winham; Mary Burton; Ronald Roberts; May
Vamplew; Phyllis Kershaw; Thomas Winter; Nora Kershaw, Ida Land; Nancy
Little; Audrey Beaumont; Stanley Baker; Arthur Greenwood; Ruth Vamplew;
Alfred Maynard Hamilton; Sylvia Hall; Marjorie Kay; George William
Satchwell;
There are also 3
possible names for Lilley, which are Margaret, Frances and Dorothy.
Although Dennis dates the photograph to 1929, I think it may actually be
1930 as George William Satchwell is the only name to fit G Satchwell and
he wasn't admitted to the school while 1930 age 9.
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Photograph
No: Schools 19
Circa 1971
Milefield
Middle School 3rd form
Mr Parkes the
form teacher was well known at the school for playing the cornet. Known
faces: Back row left to right: ?,
Frank Wright, ?, John Orange, ?, Ian Dransfield and ? Stubbs. Middle row l
to r: Mr Parkes, Janet Hulme, ?, Julie Armitage, Christine Earl, ?, Geoff
Hill. 3rd row l to r: ? Tibble, Christine Davies, Christine ?,
Rowena ?, ? Kemp, Sandra Wenham, Hazel Yoxall and ?. Boys sitting l to r,
?, Alan Smith and John Moorhouse.
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Photograph
No: Schools 20
1971
St Paul’s C
of E School Centenary celebrations
Known faces left
to right stood: Donald Barr, Keith Garbutt, Christopher Round, Chris
Little, Dale Greenwell, Mark White, Shaun Parry, Terry Higgs and the girl
sat down facing is Jacqueline Walker.
Photograph reproduced from
an old newspaper cutting.
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Photograph
No: Schools 21
1979
St Paul’s C
of E School trip to Edale
Left to right:
Les Edwards, Martin Donoghu, Adam Tinsley, Shaun Haynes, Stuart Stagg,
Bernard Lucas, Andrew Porter and Alan Richardson just in the shot.
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Photograph
No: Schools 22
1961
St Paul’s C
of E School Pontefract Musical Festival winners
Tony Horsfall
and Pam Turner who were the winning captains for the school when they won
the Pontefract Music Festival competition in 1961.
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Photograph No: Schools23
Circa 1962
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Webster’s class
Back row left to
right: Brian Senior, Alan Burdett, Gary Hotchins, Christopher Foster,
David Reece, Ralph Bown, Stephen Wilkinson, Cliff Lomas. 2nd
row down l to r: Barry Wilmot, Kevin Elvidge, Stephen Mangham, ? , Peter
Oates, Neil Fenton, Graham Scholey and Alan Hardwick. 3rd row
down l to r: Cindy Bates,
Shirley Kelly, Diane Woodward, Kathleen Keele and Valerie Nash. Bottom row
l to r: Sharon Cross, Pearl Jones, Karen Elvidge, Christine Sheridan, Jill
Stringer and Sandra Mathers.
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Photograph
No: Schools 24
Circa 1960s
St Paul’s C
of E School May Day
Known faces:
Danny & Dave Woodward, Pat Miller, Margaret Wroe. Maureen Kerly (May
Queen), Susan Armitage, David Elvidge, Kenny Nash, Janet Watson, Michael
(Poppy) Clarkson, Alan Ambler, Carol Charles, Susan Kenyon, Peter
Wilkinson, Mathew Findlay, ?
Ryalls, ? Waite, Angela Bray,
Ken Sheard, Les Parry, Sheila Haigh, Linda Higgs, Billy Bates, John Keele,
Marylyn Nash, Garry & Gerard Firth, John Armitage and Alfie Fox.
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Photograph
No: School 25
1935
St Paul’s C
of E School
Known faces: Back row left to right:
?, Mark Scholey, Herbert Vamplew, Derek Grimes, Mary Bowden,
Dorothy Butterworth, ?, ?, Walter Deighton, Billy Richards and Maurice
Thorpe. Middle row l to r: Pearl Kershaw, Mary Field, ? , ? , ? , Annie
Winter, Sylvia Osbourne, Elsie Winham, Maureen Burke, Dinah Hanson, ? ,
Ethel Baker and Betty Gillot. Boys sitting l to r: ? , ? , Jimmy Riley.
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